DeLauro’s billion-dollar faux pas wasn’t her only misstep. Shortly after we exposed as a myth the notion that this generation of children will live shorter lives than their parents, she insisted:

[A] recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine [NEJM] — hardly a bastion of the so-called “food police” — tells us our children may face a lower life expectancy than my generation because of increases in obesity and decreased physical activity.